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It might have been tough to find any winners in the transit strike yesterday unless you counted Alfred Carallo, a furniture maker whose one-bedroom apartment in Queens faces -- and virtually kisses -- the elevated No. 7 line, stilled by the transit strike. "I don't believe how quiet it is today," said Carallo, 34, of Long Island City, noting that the rumble of passing trains typically shakes his living room windows and rattles the cups on his kitchen table. "The silence today, it pretty much woke me up," he added with a laugh. He had the day off and planned to cook chicken and rice for his wife, who left home early to walk across the Queensboro Bridge to her office...

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It might have been tough to find any winners in the transit strike yesterday unless you counted Alfred Carallo, a furniture maker whose one-bedroom apartment in Queens faces -- and virtually kisses -- the elevated No. 7 line, stilled by the transit...